Last week, the Environment & Communities Overview & Scrutiny Board were pleased to be invited to attend a specially arranged meeting of Swansea Waste Forum . The forum were keen to to participate in and provide evidence for the Board’s current review into Waste Minimisation, Recycling and Composting in Swansea. The Board is particulary interested in gathering views on […]
Time Banking: A new approach for social care?
November 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Last week the Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Board visited an innovative and exciting project in the village of Blaen Garw in Bridgend as part of their current review into the work towards personalisation and transformation of adult social care in Swansea. The Board met with David Pugh who is Co-ordinator of […]
How Can We Make Swansea Safer?
October 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Today the Partnership Overview & Scrutiny Committee met to have a look at a draft of the Safer Swansea Strategy. As you might know, the Safer Swansea Strategy sets out how the police, council and many other partners will work together to reduce crime and anti social behaviour and improve community safety. The body that brings all […]
How Effective Scrutiny Made a Difference for Vulnerable Children
October 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Tuesday was a really important day for Swansea Child and Family Servcies as the Welsh Assembly Government decided to withdraw its Intervention Board after inspectors identified real improvements. First and foremost this is good news for vulnerable children and a story about the hard work of many dedicated people in social services in Swansea but there is also a story here about how […]
What is the Best Way to Deliver Shared Services?
October 15, 2010 by 1 Comment
If you haven’t heard of shared services before it is a phrase you might come across more and more if you have anything to do with providing public services. Essentially it means different organisations sharing different parts of their business to achieve savings. So, for example, all public service providers need legal and finance functions and, […]